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Calendars / Events page default timeframe is surprising #999

Closed willn closed 11 months ago

willn commented 1 year ago

When I go to create a new reservation, I'm often surprised at the timeframe that it's currently displaying. I would have expected to see "today", or even "this week" as my default view. Instead, I'm currently seeing the week that I was last viewing the last time that I used the Reservations calendar, which was "Aug 20 – 26, 2023".

Many times I have come in trying to make a reservation, I hit the "next week" right arrow, find the day of the week and try to make a reservation, but then I realize that another event has the space for that room... but I recognize that the event happened a month ago. Why am I in the past?

Today I felt compelled to file an issue because a neighbor confirmed my feelings, from Tammy:

"Sometimes this might be an accident - when making a reservation in Gather on your phone, it - very annoyingly - defaults to booking a week ahead. I have to remember to double check it every time. I've had times where I thought I made a reservation on Monday for Tuesday, but it was actually the following Tuesday, and then there's a laundry room clash. So this is a reminder to people to double check that you are actually booking the day you intended to book!"